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ISMB 2002:
Special Interest Group Meetings
Over the
past 10 years, a number of smaller, more specialized meetings in
computational biology have become regularly associated with the
ISMB annual meetings. ISMB is pleased to have several special interest
group meetings associated with the 2002 conference.
Bioinformatics
Open Source Conference (BOSC): August 1-2 (9:00-17:00) Westin
Hotel
BOSC is a two-day conference focusing on the development of open
source software for the life sciences. Keynotes will be delivered
by Michael Eisen, Winston Hide, and Ewan Birney. Leaders from many
of the major open source toolkit projects will present progress
reports and current applications of their toolkits. Additionally,
the conference will include technical talks, a poster session, mini-tutorials,
and software demonstrations, and Birds of a Feather gatherings to
discuss specialized interests. More information (including a full
speaker list) is available at www.open-bio.org/bosc2002/.
Biopathways:
August 1-2 (9:00-17:00) Westin Hotel
The fourth BioPathways is organized by the BioPathways Consortium,
an open forum to fostering computational approaches to the modelling,
reconstruction, analysis, and simulation of biological networks.
This year’s meeting will include three plenary sessions, with
respective focuses on: (1) continuous models for pathways representation,
(2) pathways reconstruction, and (3) experiment design driven by
pathways models (“systems biology” approaches). An industry
session will feature presentations of applied work in industrial
settings. Each session will include several long presentations (45
minutes), followed by a panel discussion. One of the aims of this
year’s meeting is to promote interaction between the physics
and engineering communities, and the computer science and biology
communities.
Text-Mining:
August 2 (9:00-17:00) Westin Hotel
This text-mining meeting has two purposes. The first is to bring
together researchers developing text data mining tools and related
language processing methods to manage the information explosion
in the biomedical field. This part of the meeting will include invited
and contributed papers, with a focus on developing shared infrastructure
(tools, corpora, ontologies) and challenge evaluations, in the style
of the KDD Challenge Cups (KDD Cup 2002). The second part of the
meeting will be a discussion focusing on the establishment of a
formal SIG for text data mining.
Special Interest
Group for Biological Simulation (SIGSIM02): August 3 (9:00-17:00)
Shaw Conference Centre
The construction of computer-made cell models and the conduction
of “in silico experiments” may become one of the
most important paradigms of biology in this century. SIGSIM is a
group of scientists whose interests are in simulation technologies,
computer modeling of biological processes, metabolome analysis and
systems biology. This year, SIGSIM will host SIGSIM02: Workshop
on Computer Modeling of Cellular Processes. Workshop secretariat:
sigsim02@jtbcom.co.jp
Bio-ontologies:
August 8 (9:00-17:00) Westin Hotel
The fifth annual Bio-Ontologies meeting will be held the day after
ISMB. Recent meetings have been well-attended and lively affairs.
This year’s theme is a Semantic Web of Bioinformatics Resources,
mirroring the push by the W3C on the Semantic Web. With the current
interest in bio-ontologies for marking up knowledge content of our
resources, together with the interest in E-Science, our community
is well placed to exploit the ideas of the Semantic Web. All bio-ontology
activity should be able to fit within this theme. the meeting details
and call for abstracts may be found at img.cs.man.ac.uk/stevens/meeting02.
Additional information may be requested by emailing robert.stevens@cs.man.ac.uk.
Workshop
on Education in Bioinformatics (WEB02): August 8 (9:00-17:00)
Westin Hotel
The second annual WEB02 will cover topics in Bioinformatics Education
including curriculum development, infrastructure and resource support
and strategies for program initiation and development. There is
also a new session on industry needs. In addition to short oral
and poster presentation sessions, the workshop will attempt to define
a curriculum for bioinformatics at the under-graduate and post-graduate
levels. Abstracts are due June 21, 2002. WEB02 invites faculty,
students, staff, administrators, and officials in government and
industry to participate in this discussion. surya.bic.nus.edu.sg/web02/
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